About seven years ago was my first introduction to Mr Kahan. I had been struggling immensely in school in both maths and Chumash, whilst I excelled in English and Humanities my mathematical and Kodesh skills were far behind those of my other classmates. Basic concepts most children understood from Year 2 I couldn't even follow. When it came to applying to high schools, these set backs came up in every interview. One school that I applied to even considered putting me in the special needs unit. My parents were introduced to Mr Kahan and from that day on things began to change.

Mr Kahan began to work with me. The first couple of sessions were really long, frustrating and immensely exhausting. The various exercises he got me to do seemed at times completely pointless and I felt like a fool. Yet Mr Kahan remained calm throughout always encouraging, always pushing me that one extra step. Slowly we began to see results. The "strange" work that he did with me began to make a significant change on my life. At first the changes were small, but slowly my confidence grew and my abilities grew. Hours of exercises, one on one sessions and constant work meant that I began to see the fruits of our labour pay off. Now almost eight years down the line, with Mr Kahan incredible scheme, patience and understanding I have achieved what seemed the impossible. In Maths GCSE I achieved a high B grade when I was predicted that I would never get more then a D. My Gemora and Chumash skills have excelled tremendously with me performing on par with some of the top students in my year. Last week I sat a farher for one of the top yeshivas and I got in. All this would have been impossible without the work Mr Kahan did with me. I am a true testament to what he can achieve. It is possible!! I am forever indebted to Mr Kahan, he has changed my life forever.

My son, Noah, was referred at 9 years to MR Kahan by the Occupational Therapist. He had been diagnosed with dyspraxia with very low abilities around his areas of balance, catching, and visual tracking. He had also earlier been diagnosed with dyslexia, with massive discrepancies between his verbal reasoning and his visual memory. Despite these difficulties, Noah was very high functioning, very bright, and read well! He was nevertheless on the SEN register at school because it was felt he was not reaching his full potential.

Me Kahan performed an eye test, and prescribed lenses which instantly stopped the migraines Noah had from reading. He also got Noah to perform a few simple exercises that instantly revealed how Noah’s body was not behaving in a naturally coordinated manner.

WE then embarked on a series of simple exercises, done daily, around the areas of peripheral vision, tracking and co-ordination. These had an instantaneous effect! The visual effect was dramatic: Noah was able to make eye contact, focus for longer, and his memory improved! At times the “Instant hardwiring” effect was almost overwhelming, and we felt that something fundamental was happening to Noah’s brain.

We used simple clapping, rhythmic exercises to internalise things like spelling or times tables, and Noah’s sequential memory suddenly kicked into gear.

These were coupled with simple movement exercises that joined breathing to movement, becoming slightly more involved as time progressed. One could easily see movements that initially Noah could only co-ordinate with extreme conscious effort, become organic and natural with time.

We performed this system for less than 6 months, seeing Mr Kahan about 6 times in this period. At the end of this, Noah’s improvement was so marked. He could play football, catch, remember times tables, read for long periods, stop panicking about remembering and performing lists of instructions, that we decided not to go ahead with the course of 12 occupational therapy sessions, and Noah was removed from the SEN register.

I have been praising Me Kahan’s methods to the skies ever since! It was a quite extra ordinary, healing and beautiful intervention into the life of a little boy, who’s developmental delays were really holding him back and frustrating him.

Joshua started to improve slowly, but the improvement was quite dramatic.  It started when Joshua could suddenly ride a bicycle – for a number of years he just was not able to - then after seeing Mr Kahan he could.  Then his grades improved and he started to be able to read and more importantly, enjoy it.  He now has very few problems at school.  I was very cynical at first but feel Mr Kahan’s work made a big difference.